Shell script

[Shabam]

Up to now I've been doing this manually via the command shell. However I'm
sure I can automate this using a script with better results. Can someone
show me how I can do this?

cp -pr /site/template/user /site/j/jason
cp -p /site/data/j/jason.dat /site/data/j/jason.dat; pico -w
/site/data/j/jason.dat

In pico I'm basically changing the first 3 lines, replacing the first line
with user "jason"s email, second with his name, and third with his zip code.

I'm trying to come up with a script that will take the username, email,
name, and zip code as arguments. Once done it will perform the above steps
and be done. Can someone perhaps help me with this? I've dabbled in some
Perl, but mostly by editting what's already been made. Thanks.

[octoberdan]

File I/O
(read through the responders suggustion):
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/44940

Regex
http://www.regular-expressions.info/perl.html
http://www.zvon.org/other/PerlTutorial/Output/
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/humcomp/perl/regex2a.html


For nix shell stuff:

With Bourne / Bash shell scripting:
http://quong.best.vwh.net/shellin20/
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Program...eat_Sheet.html
http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

With perl:
a. http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/sysadmin/
or
b. http://search.cpan.org/search?query=shell&mode=all

somthing like that... good luck!

[Shea Martin]

Shabam wrote:

Up to now I've been doing this manually via the command shell. However I'm
sure I can automate this using a script with better results. Can someone
show me how I can do this?

cp -pr /site/template/user /site/j/jason
cp -p /site/data/j/jason.dat /site/data/j/jason.dat; pico -w
/site/data/j/jason.dat

In pico I'm basically changing the first 3 lines, replacing the first line
with user "jason"s email, second with his name, and third with his zip code.

I'm trying to come up with a script that will take the username, email,
name, and zip code as arguments. Once done it will perform the above steps
and be done. Can someone perhaps help me with this? I've dabbled in some
Perl, but mostly by editting what's already been made. Thanks.

You could learn a minimal amount of perl/ruby/bash/python, then write a
short script to do all this for you. Actually, you could do it will
just the sed command if you are on unix. Thats what I would do.

~S